MediaWiki-l March 2006

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Execute specific PHP code within article, how to?
by Michael Krefft 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi! I would like to create a Mediawiki tag that allows me to run PHP code within an article. I've seen an extension that allows execution of arbitrary code, but that seems too dangerous to me. It should be from a specific file only, e.g. "/somefolder/somestuff.php" which gets called via {{somestuff|foo}} , being "foo" a value which is used by a function in somestuff.php I'm sure this would allow many interesting modifications, customizations and enhancements for MediaWiki. Can this be done with an extension? How? Cheers to all!

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Searches for small words (in caps) return no results
by Freek Dijkstra 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi, Please change the test for "MediaWiki:Nonefound" in the default installation from: '''Note''': unsuccessful searches are often caused by searching for common words like "have" and "from", which are not indexed, or by specifying more than one search term (only pages containing all of the search terms will appear in the result). to: '''Note''': unsuccessful searches are often caused by searching for words shorter then 4 characters, or common words like "have" and "from", which are not indexed, or by specifying more than one search term (only pages containing all of the search terms will appear in the result). I just spend quite some time figuring out why a search on "IP" did not match a page, while I was sure I had a page on "IP Address ranges". Obviously, this is a MySQL-specific problem (which only indexes words of 4 chars and up [1]), but I have the impression I'm not the only one who encountered this "feature" of MySQL. Alternatively, it is very well possible to make a workaround, and recognize the fact that search with a short word is performed by MySQL, but I dislike such a feature, so I propose a generic warning instead, and just hope that MySQL makes it easier to change the min-word-length on a per-table (or per-column or per-database) rather then a per-server basis. Regards, Freek Dijkstra [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/fulltext-search.html "Some words are ignored in full-text searches: Any word that is too short is ignored. The default minimum length of words that are found by full-text searches is four characters. [...]" PS: I put the misleading "(in caps)" in the subject because I suspected this was a case-related bug (somehow all my short words were all caps ;-) ); perhaps people will earlier spot this mail when they Google for this quirck.

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Release time (roadmap) of 1.6?
by Tels 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Moin, "MediaWiki 1.6 is not released yet, even though MediaWiki 1.6alpha is currently running on all Wikimedia sites (since August 2005)". Ouch, so 1.6 is in Alpha stage for now about 7 months. I am afraid I have to ask the questin again: * Is there a roadmap/release schedule telling us when people running other wikis can enjoy the features of 1.6, too? I would like to upgrade a few wikis, but without a stable release I am unable to do so - running alpha code on a production wiki isn't such a good idea if you don't have the great network admins from Wikipedia in the background :) Thanx for your time, Tels -- Signed on Wed Mar 29 19:08:02 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. This email violates U.S. patent #5,978,791 <http://tinyurl.com/5t6ft>

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who's online?
by Dalton Serey 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi Is there any extension or plugin for MediaWiki that shows online users? Something similar to the online users module in the vBulletin forum software used in MediaWiki Users http://www.mwusers.com/ http://www.mwusers.com/forums/online.php Thanks, Dalton Serey DSC / UFCG / Brazil http://dsc.ufcg.edu.br/~dalton <http://dsc.ufcg.edu.br/%7Edalton>

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Multiple wikis - dealing with cookies
by Sy Ali 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I've got some issues with multiple wikis timing out and forcing multiple logins throughout the day. They're all hosted on the same machine in different subdirectories (for various reasons). I do recall that there is some functionality to tweak how these wikis create their cookies.. in theory they could all share the same one. I'm not sure where to begin looking for the answers so I thought I'd ask.

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Special:Statistics Calculation
by Tim Doyle 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I'm confused about how the Special:Statistics page is being calculated. My wiki has nearly 5,000 total pages, many of them user-contributed. Here's what Special:Statistics displays: There are 4,786 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about WRG, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 26 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. Now I know that there are far more than 26 legitimate pages! I think the problem here is that most of the user-contributed content pages have been placed in custom-defined namespaces. This was done to allow 'advanced' searches on different subject areas, which is not possible if everything is lumped into the main namespace. Is there any way to get the calculation of 'good' articles to include these custom namespaces? I am concerned about this under-reporting issue not only because anyone checking my Statistics page will get an incomplete picture of my wiki, but also because this calculation is used to rank the largest wikis at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis, and if based on incomplete information, this list is not accurate. Thank you! Tim Doyle

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hide minor edits in RSS?
by Chris Earle (CBL) 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

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Various false users registered!
by Amit Vyas 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi all, I have just upgraded to 1.5.8, But I discovered there are false users registered on my wiki http://www.indiaonpix.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers is this normal ? how can i stop this? On 3/31/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > Hiram Clawson wrote: > > When there is a significant release like this 1.6, are their > > typically upgrade operations that have to be performed on the > > database to bring it up to new functionality ? Say for example, > > moving from 1.5.6 to 1.6. > > See the file UPGRADE in the MediaWiki distribution. > > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > -- Regards. Amit Vyas Site : http://www.indiaonpix.com Mission : http://www.indiaonpix.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Blog : http://indiaonpix.blogspot.com Project GridOne: http://discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/gridone +91-9314299252

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Multiple wikis - dealing with cookies
by Edward Z. Yang 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Because, to be frank about it, our documentation is shit. Want to help > improve it? Seriously. Come help out with the [[Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta]]. I appear to be the only one tackling the technical documents. - -- Edward Z. Yang Personal: edwardzyang(a)thewritingpot.com SN:Ambush Commander Website: http://www.thewritingpot.com/ GPGKey:0x869C48DA http://www.thewritingpot.com/gpgpubkey.asc 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFELE9GqTO+fYacSNoRArg6AJ4zUEJisohgvYX+PDnLXTMTTr54gwCbBie+ jiuL4YaAS4Yp6/mZkimcxmM= =+dMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Mediawiki-l] Release time (roadmap) of 1.6?
by Jeff Lane 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Thank you for the heads up on the release Brion. We're about to do a 1.4.12 to 1.5.8 upgrade, so it's nice to be aware of this imminent release. Could you possibly give a rough idea of the issues (if any) we might run into going from a 1.5.8 to 1.6.0 upgrade? This might influence our decision to delay our 1.5.8 upgrade and go direct to 1.6.0. The current Upgrading help page only addresses 1.5.x and below. Thanks, -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Release time (roadmap) of 1.6? Tels wrote: >> 1.6.0 will release next week. > > Wowa, second time I am responsible for a release! (just kidding! :) Actually, Evan Prodromou talked me into this schedule this weekend, I just forgot to tell anyone. :) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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